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title: And according to the museum: "As South African museums in Cape Town… — Pretoria · tree and pragmatics
description: And according to the museum: "As South African museums in Cape Town and Johannesburg already had good collections of 17th, 18th and 19th century European art, it was decided to focus on compiling a representative collection of South African art" making it somewhat unusual compared to its contemporar
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# Pretoria, sentence 222

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From Wikipedia, [«Pretoria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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And according to the museum: "As South African museums in Cape Town and Johannesburg already had good collections of 17th, 18th and 19th century European art, it was decided to focus on compiling a representative collection of South African art" making it somewhat unusual compared to its contemporaries.

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**Who acts:** museum · **What happens:** accord, decide, focus, compile, make, compare · **To what, where:** Collection, representative collection

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pretoria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (museum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Pretoria:222
# text = And according to the museum: "As South African museums in Cape Town and Johannesburg already had good collections of 17th, 18th and 19th century European art, it was decided to focus on compiling a representative collection of South African art" making it somewhat unusual compared to its contemporaries.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	As	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Johannesburg	Johannesburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	already	already	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	17th	17th	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	24	conj	_	_
27	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
28	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	focus	focus	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	compiling	compile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	representative	representative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	_
50	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	advcl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	contemporaries	contemporary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** *in a quote* | past · passive | the museum *not said here* | Collection |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **focus** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the museum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **compile** *in a quote* | gerund | the museum *not said here* | a representative collection of South African art |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Product |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the museum *not said here* | Collection |  |  |  | unusual *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 6 | **compare** | participle | the museum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Collection's contemporaries | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Pretoria», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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